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# In the second round of the 1974 French presidential election, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand were separated by 424,599 votes, or a little over 1%
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- Published: 2022-04-11T19:12:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:39:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Society, People

In the second round of the 1974 French presidential election, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand were separated by 424,599 votes, or a little over 1%. The twentieth President of the French Republic was Giscard d'Estaing, but the twenty-first was, after all, François Mitterrand, whose fourteen-year presidency was the longest in French history